Swedish Academy praises Belarusian writer’s work as a ‘monument to suffering in our time’The news and reaction – as it happenedEverything you need to know approximately Svetlana Alexievich: an introductionHer life and career,in picturesSvetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian writer whose verbal histories have recorded thousands of individual voices to map the implosion of the Soviet Union, and has won the Nobel prize for literature.
The Swedish Academy,announcing her win, praised Alexievich’s “polyphonic writings”, and describing them as a “monument to suffering and courage in our time”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com